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Blum Blasts Soviet Union
UNITED NATIONS
(JTA) — Yehuda Blum, Is-
rael's ambassador to the
United Nations, charged
last week that the Soviet
Union, "is still fanning the
flames of anti-Jewish
hatred."
In a sharply worded
statement to the General
Assembly Third Commit-
tee, the Israeli envoy said
that the Soviets are
encouraging anti-Semitism
under the guise of "anti-
Zionism." He cited recent
anti-Semitic books pub-
lished in the USSR "under
the cloak of an attack on
Zionism."
Blum also charged that
the more than two million
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Jews in the USSR are de-
prived of basic human
rights.
The right of Jews to
emigrate, Blum claimed,
has been drastically cur-
tailed over the last year
by the Soviet authorities
by severely restricting
the eligibility of appli-
cants. Only 18,000 Jews
were allowed to leave the
Soviet Union in the first
nine months of 1980,
Blum said, less than half
the number leaving dur-
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MEET YOUR LEADER: The Joint Distribution
Committee comes to its 66th annual meeting on Dec. 9 in
New York with a new look, new problems, an innovation in
criterion for membership on its board of directors, and the
election of a new president under its policy of rotating
leadership.
The outgoing president, Donald M. Robinson, has now
completed his three-year term as head of the JDC with
quite an enviable record of achievements. The hew
president is Henry Taub — a modest, capable, kind-hearted
man, a generous person, an active leader in Jewish com-
munal life in his community in New Jersey and nationally,
a donor who stands in the front row among the largest
contributors to the United Jewish Appeal and other Jewish
causes, one whose record of activities for the UJA goes back
to the time when he was 20 years of age; a former president
of the American Technion Society, a humanitarian who has
been interested in the JDC work not only because it helps
Jews in 25 countries but also because it helps them to live
as Jews, a vice president of the JDC during the past five
years.
A MAN OF NOBLE TRADITIONS: Taub was not
born into riches, but he comes from a household where the
tradition of Tzedaka — Jewish philanthropy — was deeply
rooted, as were other Jewish traditions. His parents came
to the United States in the 1920s and continued in the
tradition of giving charity within their means. Born in this
country, Taub still sentimentally recalls the "pushkes" —
charity boxes — in his home into which his mother and
grandmother would drop coins on every possible occasion,
especially on Fridays before lighting the Sabbath candles.
This left an indelible impression on him. The traditio-n of
sharing was also very strong with his father and
grandfather.
With the turbulent situation in the world today affect-
ing Jews in various countries, Taub takes over the JDC
presidency at a time when the organization will face many
complications. He is well aware of this fact. He hopes to be
able to contribute his share to the JDC in spotting potential
trouble areas and help each troubled community to
strengthen its communal life.
THE ROTATING JDC PRESIDENCY: Donald
Robinson, the outgoing JDC president, will under the JDC
policy of rotating leadership become chairman of the JDC
board of directors, succeeding Jack D. Weiler, the great
Jewish philanthropist who will become honorary president
of JDC and who was its president prior to becomcng chair-
man of the board.
Robinson led the JDC to significant achievements dur-
ing the three years of his presidency. Despite the fact that
inflation has substantially reduced the value of the dollar,
the JDC has under his guidance aided 500,000 Jews in 25
countries in 1980. This means that it helped more Jews this
year than in almost any year since the time of the displaced
persons camp following World War II.
Under his administration the JDC resumed its serv-
ices in Hungary. These services, conducted for quite a
number of years, were discontinued by order of the Hunga-
rian authorities in 1954 who ordered the JDC office in
Budapest closed. A JDC director for Hungary is now re-
viewing social welfare programs for the needy Jews there
in cooperation with the central body of Hungarian Jewry.
During Robinson's administration the JDC also
opened a new home for the Jewish aged in Romania. JDC
also transferred the JDC headquarters in Israel into a
newly-built magnificent building in Jerusalem, indicating
the centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish people. The Israel
government and the Jerusalem municipality acknowl-
edged the importance of this move under Robinson's ad-
ministration by naming the area in which the new JDC
building is located "Givat Joint" — the "JDC Hill." JDC
spent about $12 million in Israel this year, providing funds
and professional guidance to more than 100 different pro-
grams.
There were also other achievements during the three
years of Robinson's presidency. During the first two years,
the Soviet government permitted the largest number of
Jews to emigrate, and JDC — quite apart from providing
the Jews who came out from the Soviet Union with basic
necessities, like food, shelter and medical care — has also
tried to overcome the spiritual and religious starvation
they endured for decades with a rich program of Jewish
cultural and religious activities. ,
But perhaps one of the greatest achievements for
which "Don" deserves credit is his broadening of the JDC
leadership base following a self-evaluation of the JDC by
his predecessor, Jack Weiler. It brought into the JDC gov-
erning bodies bright, energetic young people, more women
and more activists from outside of New York. It injected
new blood and new vigor and ideas into the organization.
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